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Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering

Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering

Past Seminars

VISE Seminar Series

2023 FALL Schedule

  • August 24, Thursday, VISE Undergraduate Summer Fellows Presentations
  • September 7, Thursday, Shuo Li, PhD, Associate Professor. Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve
  • September 21, Thursday, James Weimer, PhD, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University
  • October 12, Thursday, Sarah Frisken, PhD, Assistant Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School and Brighan and Women’s Hospital
  • October 26, Thursday, Ashish Shah, MD, FACS, Professor and Chair, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  • November 2, Thursday, Polina Golland, PhD, Henry Ellis Warrant Professor of EECS, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
  • December 13, Wednesday, 12th Annual Surgery, Intervention, and Engineering Symposium, Keynote: Aydogan Ozcan, PhD, Chancellor’s Professor at UCLA, Volgenau Chair for Engineering Innovation, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Bioengineering

2023 Summer Instructional Seminar Series
Research-in-Progress Seminars (RiPS)

  • June 8, Thursday, Seth Crawford (BME) and Piper Cannon (ME)
  • June 22, Thursday, Nancy Newlin (CS) and Tianyuan Yao (CS)
  • July 27, Thursday, Derek Doss (BME) and Behnaz Akbarian (BME)
  • August 10, Thursday, Jumanh Atoum (CS) and Xing Yao (CS)

2023 SPRING SEMINAR SERIES

Seminars have a start time of 11:45 am (lunch) and will be located in Stevenson Center 5325

  • January 19, Thursday, Shawniqua Willams Roberson, MEng, MD, Clinical Director, ICU EEG, Assistant Professor, Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  • February 2, Thursday, Joshua Gafford, PhD, Co-Founder/CTO at EndoTheia, Inc
  • February 16, Thursday, Daniel Moyer, PhD, Assistant Professor Computer Science, Vanderbilt University
  • March 9, Thursday, Anne Majewicz Fey, PhD, Associate Professor, Robert and Francis Stark Centennial Fellowship in Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
  • March 23, Thursday, Alan Kuntz, PhD, Assistant Professor, Robotics Center and Kahlert School of Computing, University of Utah
  • March 30, Thursday, Parvin Mousavi, PhD, Professor, Queen’s University
  • April 13, Thursday, Linwei Wang, PhD, Professor, Computing and Information Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology
  • April 20, Thursday, NIH grant writing: What you should know but were afraid to ask with Victoria Morgan, PhD, Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences and Michael Miga, PhD, Harvie Branscomb Professor, Professor of Biomedical Engineering

2022 Fall SEMINAR SERIES


Seminars have a start time of 11:45 am (lunch) and will be located in Stevenson Center 5325

  • August 25, Thursday, VISE Undergraduate Summer Fellows Presentations
  • September 8, Thursday, Xiaoguang Dong, PhD, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University
  • September 22, Thursday VISE GOES TO MICCAI MICCAI COMES TO VISE
  • October 20, Thursday, Hrishi Deo, PhD, Founder and CEO, Ergami Endoscopy
  • November 3, Thursday, Jie Ying Wu, PhD, Assistant Professor, Computer Science
  • November 17, Thursday, Hervé Lombaert, PhD, Canada Research Chair, Associate Professor, ETS Montreal
  • December 1, Thursday, Hal Blumenfeld, MD, PhD, Mark Loughridge and Michele Williams Professor of Neurology and Professor of Neuroscience and of Neurosurgery, Yale School of Medicine
  • December 7, Wednesday, 11th Annual Surgery, Intervention, and Engineering Symposium, Keynote: Martha Morell, MD, Clinical Professor, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford Medicine

2022 Summer SEMINAR SERIES

June 9, Thursday, Brooks Lindsey, PhD, Assistant Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University

June 23, Thursday Graham Johnson, (BME), MSTP and Michael Miga, PhD via zoom

July 7, Thursday, Research in Progress (RiPS) Nhung Hoang (CS), and Frank Servin (BME)

July 21, Thursday Research in Progress (RiPS) Lucas Sainburg (BME) and Emelina Vienneau (BME)

August 11, Thursday Research in Progress (RiPS) Jared Lawson (ME) and Bowen Xiang (BME)

2022 SPRING SEMINAR SERIES

All seminars will open at 12:15 pm with a 12:25 pm start in Stevenson Center 5326 (except the January seminar which will be via Zoom).

January 20, Thursday,  Kamran Idrees, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery, Chief, Division of Surgical Oncology and Endocrine Surgery, VUMC

February 3, Thursday, Theodore Zanos, PhD, Assistant Professor, Institute of Bioelectronic Medicine, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research

February 17, Thursday, Natasha Sheybani, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia

March 3, Thursday, Zachary Bercu, MD, Associate Professor of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine

March 24, Thursday, Chris Holsinger, MD, Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University

April 7, Thursday, Susan Gregurick, PhD, Associate Director for Data Science, National Institutes of Health

 

2021 Fall SEMINAR SERIES

If you would like to received seminar announcements, email michelle.bukowski@vanderbilt.edu to be added to the list.

All seminars will open at Noon with 12:05pm start in Stevenson Center 5326.

August 26, Thursday: VISE Undergraduate Summer Fellows Presentations

September 23, Thursday: Archana Venkataraman, PhD, John C. Malone Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

October 7, Thursday: John Gore, PhD, University Professor, Hertha Ramsey Cress Chair in Medicine, Director of the Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center

October 28, Thursday: Ahmed Ghazi, MD, MSc, Associate Professor of Urology, University of Rochester Medical Center

November 11, Thursday: Soheil Kolouri, PhD, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University

November 18, Thursday: Jared M. Weiss, MD Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Oncology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Michael Topf, MD ,Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
December 15, Wednesday: 10th Annual Surgery, Intervention, and Engineering Symposium with Keynote: Natalia Trayanova, PhD, MS, Murray B. Sachs Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

2021 SUMMER INSTRUCTIONAL SEMINAR SERIES

Via Zoom

June 3, Thursday, Zachary Stoebner, MS candidate (EECS), and William Tierney, PhD Candidate (BME)

June 17, Thursday, Joshua McCune, PhD Candidate (BME), and Rachel Ping, MS Candidate (BME)

July 8, Thursday, Rachel Eimen, PhD Candidate (BME), and Max Emerson, PhD Candidate (ME)

July 22, Thursday, Emelina Vienneau, PhD Candidate (BME), and Rachel Teater, PhD Candidate (ME)

August 5, Thursday, Erin Bratu, PhD Candidate (EECS), and Roza Bayrak, PhD Candidate (EECS)

2021 SPRING SEMINAR SERIES

Via Zoom

  • January 28, Thursday, Sarah Bick, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery, and Michael Topf, MD, Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, VUMC
  • February 11, Thursday, Eric Tkaczyk, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, VUMC and Shramana Ghosh, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Vanderbilt Dermatology Translational Research Clinic (VDTRC)
  • February 25, Thursday, Lena Maier-Hein, PhD, Head of Div. Computer Assisted Medical Interventions (CAMI), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, DE.
  • March 11, Thursday,  Alex Krieger, PhD, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
  • March 25, Thursday, Summer Gibbs, PhD, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Oregon Health and Science University
  • April 8, Thursday, David T. Kent, MD, Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology, Director of Sleep Surgery, VUMC, and Daniel Fabbri, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, VUMC
  • April 29, Thursday, Eric Shinohara, MD, MSCI, Ingram Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology, VUMC

2020 FALL SEMINAR SERIES

Via Zoom

  • August 27, Thursday, Christos Constantinidis, PhD, Professor, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Wake Forest School of Medicine
  • September 10, Thursday, Muneeb Ahmed, MD, Chief and Vice Chair, Interventional Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  • September 24, Thursday, Amber Simpson, PhD, Associate Professor in Biomedical Computing and Informatics, Queen’s University, ON, Canada
  • October 8, Thursday, Marvin Doyley, PhD, Chair & Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rochester
  • October 22, Thursday, Tal Arbel, PhD, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
  • November 5, Thursday, Elisa Konofagou, PhD, Robert and Margaret Hariri Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology, Columbia University
  • November 19, Thursday, Sheila Russo, PhD, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University
  • December 9, Thursday, 9th Annual Surgery, Intervention, and Engineering Symposium, Keynote: Stephen B. Solomon, MD, Chief, Interventional Radiology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

2020 SUMMER Instructional Seminar Series

Via Zoom
Time: 12:00 start

2020 Spring Seminar Series

Location: Stevenson Center 5326,
Time: 12:15 p.m. lunch, with a 12:25 p.m. start

  • January 16, Thursday, Jose´ A. Diaz, MD, Director, Division of Surgical Research, Research Associate Professor of Surgery, VUMC
  • January 30, Thursday, Cathy Eng, MD, FACP, FASCO, David H. Johnson Chair in Surgical and Medical Oncology, Co-Leader of Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Program, VUMC
  • February 13, Thursday, Junzhong Xu, Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, VUIIS, VUMC
  • February 27, Thursday, Tim Kowalewski, PhD, Richard and Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota
  • March 12, Thursday, Muneeb Ahmed, MD, Chief, Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center – POSTPONED
  • March 26, Thursday, David T. Kent, MD, Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology, Director of Sleep Surgery, VUMC, and Daniel Fabbri, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, VUMC – POSTPONED
  • April 9, Thursday, Samuel Achilefu, PhD, Professor of Radiology, Biomedical Engineering, and Biochemistry, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis – POSTPONED

Fall 2019

Location: Stevenson Center 5326,
Time: 12:15 p.m. lunch, with a 12:20 p.m. start

  • August 22, Thursday, VISE Summer Fellows Presentations
  • September 5, Thursday, Walter J. Jermakowicz, MD, PhD, Department of Neurosurgery, VUMC
  • September 26, Thursday, Daniel B. Brown, MD, Director of Interventional Oncology, VUMC & Brett Byram, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, VU
  • October 10, Thursday, Zion Tse, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Medical Robotics Laboratory, Associate Director, Center for Cyber-Physical Systems
  • October 31, Thursday, Kathy Nightingale, PhD, Theo Pilkington Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
  • November 14, Thursday, Raj Shekhar, PhD, Principal Investigator, Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, Children’s National Health System

*December 11, Wednesday, 8th Annual Surgery, Intervention, and Engineering Symposium,

Keynote:  Louis Kavoussi, MD, Chair & Professor of Urology at Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, and Professor, Center for Health Innovations and Outcomes Research, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research at Northwell Health

Summer 2019

 Summer Instructional Seminar Series

*Brief update after the RiPS.  Specifically, to investigators, current and future, there have been some recent changes in peer review.  One of the four new review criteria associated with improving rigor and transparency has changed.  ‘Scientific Premise’ has been changed to ‘Rigor of the Prior Research’.

Spring 2019

  • January 10, Thursday, Michael I. Miga, PhD, Harvie Branscomb Professor, Professor Biomedical Engineering,Todd Peterson, PhD, Director of Nuclear Imaging, Associate Professor of Radiology & Radiological Sciences, VUIIS, and Anna Fisher, CNMT, PET Technologist, VUIIS
  • January 24, Thursday, Matthew Bacchetta, MD, MBA, MA, William Scott, Jr. Chair in Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  • February 7, Thursday, Kristy Brock, PhD, Professor, Department of Imaging Physics, Division of Diagnostic Imaging, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • February 28, Thursday, Steve Hetts, MD, Professor of Radiology, University of California, San Fransisco
  • March 14, Thursday, Punit Prakash, PhD, Paul L. Spainhour Professorship in Electrical Engineering, Kansas State University
  • March 28, Thursday, Ipek Oguz, PhD, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University
  • April 11, Thursday, Catie Chang, PhD,Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Vanderbilt University

Fall 2018

  • August 23, Thursday, VISE Summer Fellows Presentations
  • September 13, Thursday, Seth Smith, PhD, Associate Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, and Ophthalmology, Director of Human Imaging Core, VUIIS, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  • September 27, Thursday, Emad Ebbini, PhD, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota
  • October 11, Thursday, Erin Alexis Gillaspie, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  • October 25, Thursday, Jonathan Sorger, PhD, Vice President of Research, Intuitive Surgical, Inc.
  • November 8, Thursday, Erdem Erdemir, PhD, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Tennessee State University
  • November 29, Thursday, Chris West, President, Zeroto510, Medical Device Accelerator
  • December 12, Wednesday, 7th Annual Surgery, Intervention, and Engineering Symposium,

Summer 2018
VISE Summer Instructional Seminar Series
Research-in-Progress Reports (RiPs)

  • June 7, Thursday, Rashid Yasin, PhD Candidate (Mechanical Engineering), Giuseppe Del Giudice, PhD Candidate (Mechanical Engineering)
  • June 28, Thursday, Jianing Wang, PhD Candidate (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) & Margaret Rox, PhD Candidate (Mechanical Engineering)
  • July 12, Thursday, Ethan Joll, PhD Candidate (Biomedical Engineering), & Joe Malone, PhD Candidate (Biomedical Engineering)
  • July 26, Thursday, Katy Riojas, PhD Candidate (Mechanical Engineering) & Vishwesh Nath, PhD Candidate (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
  • July 31, Thursday, Kenneth B. Bader, PhD, Department of Radiology and the Committee on Medical Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  • August 9, Thursday, Camilo Bermudez Noguera, MD/PhD Candidate (Biomedical Engineering), & Laura Masson, PhD Candidate (Biomedical Engineering)

Spring 2018

  • January 11, Thursday, David Sarment, President, Xoran Technologies, LLC
  • January 25,  Thursday, Jason Spector, MD, Professor of Plastic Surgery, Otolaryngology, and Bioengineering, Weill Cornell Medical College (Hosted by Vanderbilt University Biomedical Engineering, co-sponsored by VISE)
  • February 8, Thursday, Jake Abbott, PhD, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah
  • February 22 , Thursday, Diandra Ayala-Peacock, MD, Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  • March 15, Thursday, Lori Jordan, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Neurology, Division of Pediatric Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  • March 29, Thursday, Eric Tkaczyk, M.D., Ph.D, Director, Cutaneous Imaging Clinic, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Dermatology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  • April 12, Thursday, Mitch Edgeworth, MBA, Chief Executive Officer, Vanderbilt University Hospital and Clinics

Fall 2017

  • August 24, Thursday, VISE Summer Fellows Presentations
  • September 7, Thursday, Alexander J. Langerman, MD, Associate Professor of Otolaryngology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  • September 21, Thursday, Lola Chambless, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  • October 5, Thursday, Michael I. Miga, PhD, Harvie Branscomb Professor, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University
  • October 19, Thursday, Caroline Chung, MD, Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • October 26, Thursday, Mitch Edgeworth, MBA, Chief Executive Officer, Vanderbilt University Hospital and Clinics
  • November 2, Thursday, Stephen Aylward, PhD, Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives, Kitware Inc.
  • November 16, Thursday, Andrew C. Larson, PhD, Professor of Radiology and Electrical Engineering, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
  • December 5, Tuesday, Elena A. Kaye, PhD, Assistant Attending Physicist, Department of Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  • December 13, Wednesday, 6th Annual Surgery, Intervention, and Engineering Symposium, Keynote: Eben Rosenthal, MD, John and Ann Doerr Medical Director of the Stanford Cancer Center, Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, and Radiology

Summer 2017

Provost Research Studio in Ultrasound Imaging Research (Moderator: Brett Byram, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering)

·        May 22, Monday, noon, Michael Insana, PhD, Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering, Professor of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
·        June 2, Friday, 1:30pm, Stanislav Emelianov, PhD, Professor, Joseph M. Pettit Chair, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech & Emory School of Medicine
·        June 15, Thursday, noon, Matthew O’Donnell, PhD, Professor of Bioengineering, University of Washington

Regularly Scheduled VISE Summer Instructional Seminar Series

·        July 13, Thursday, noon, Srijata Chakravorti, PhD Candidate & Ma Luo, PhD Candidate – RIP Seminars
·        July 27, Thursday, noon, Ilwoo Lyu, PhD, Research Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Vanderbilt University
·        August 10, Thursday, noon, Patrick Anderson, PhD Candidate, & Megan Poorman, PhD Candidate – RIP Seminars
·        August 17, Thursday, noon, Hernan Gonzalez, MD/PhD Candidate, & Jon Heiselman, PhD Candidate – RIP Seminars

Spring 2017

  • January 12,  Albert Attia, MD, Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, & Jared Weis, PhD, Research Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
  • January 19, Michael G. Giacomelli, Postdoctoral Fellow, Biomedial Optical imaging and Biophotonics Group, MIT
  • February 9,  Karen Christman, PhD, Professor of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego
  • February 23, Ron Alterovitz, PhD, Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • March 2, Dario Englot, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, VUMC
  • March 16, Catie Chang, Research Fellow, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH
  • March 23,  Richard M. Leahy, PhD, Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California
  • March 27, Ming Li, chief of bioengineering section, Cardiothoracic Surgery Research Program, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health.
  • March 30, Jack Noble, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University
  • April 13,  Smita De, MD/PhD VISE Fellow, Instructor Urological Surgery, VUMC & Ryan S. Hsi, M.D. Assistant Professor of Urologic Surgery, VUMC

Fall 2016

    • Aug. 23, Tues.:*** Matthieu Chabanas, PhD, Associate Professor in Computer Science, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France
    • Aug. 25, Thurs.: VISE Summer Fellows Presentations
    • Sept. 8, Thurs.: Nicholas Marko, MD, Chief Data Officer & Director of Neurosurgical Oncology, Geisinger Medical Center
    • Sept. 22, Thurs.: Martin J. Gallagher, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    • Oct. 6, Thurs.: Alexander J. Langerman, MD, Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center – Postponed
    • Oct 20, Thurs: Michael I. Miga, PhD, Harvie Branscomb Professor, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University
    • Nov. 3, Thurs.: Fabien Moldonado, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Interventional Pulmonology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

    • Nov. 10, Thurs.: Ashwini D. Sharan, MD, Professor of Neurosurgery, Functional Neurosurgery and Neuroimplantation Center Director, Thomas Jefferson University

    • Dec. 14, Wed.: 5th Annual Surgery, Intervention, and Engineering Symposium, Keynote: Christopher P. Austin, MD, Director, National Center for Advancing Translational Science at the National Institutes of Health

Summer 2016

  • August 11th, Thursday, noon lunch, 12:10pm -1:10pm, Dr. Mark Palmeri, PhD, Associate Professor of the Practice, Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Anesthesiology, Duke University

Research In Progress reports (RIPs)

  • July 14th, Thursday, noon lunch, 12:10pm -1:10pm, Saramati Narasimhan, and Kristy Walsh, Research In Progress Reports
  • June 30th, Thursday, noon lunch, 12:10pm -1:10pm, Shikha Chaganti, and Andria Remirez, Research In Progress Reports
  • June 16th, Thursday, noon lunch, 12:10pm -1:10pm, Yuankai Huo, and Dongqing Zhang, Research In Progress Reports
  • June 2nd, Thursday, noon lunch, 12:10pm -1:10pm, Jamie Tierney, and Ahmet Cakir, Research In Progress Reports